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[–] Sanctus 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh, Thought Police? From the party of small government? Somebody call a paleontologist because this horse has been dead so long its a fucken fossil.

[–] dhork 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They want government to be so small it can be implanted in a uterus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

As long as the government implantation acts like an IUD that might be a good thing.

[–] Wrench 7 points 1 year ago

They want small government in the same sense that small southern towns "self policed" and would lynch and run out "undesirables". You know, like local sherrifs that would also put on white hoods.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Republicans want the LGBTQ community back in the closet and for us all to shut up.

Hope everyone votes these Republicans out before they make America Great Again.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is funny because this has amplified the issue and now lots of us CisHets are using inclusive language in support of our nonCis-nonHet homies.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess we might need to redefine the word “great” soon.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Double-plus good?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Back in the closet is just a compromise they'll tolerate. They want LGBTQ people to not exist at all, and many are willing to kill to make that happen.

[–] FuglyDuck 3 points 1 year ago

‘Course they do.

They’re getting lonely by themselves.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

I bet the teacher has a good idea which nutbag parent called it in.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear 48 points 1 year ago

So they are charging the person with making a false police report, right?

[–] dumpsterlid 40 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Nothing says Small Government like sending Police into a CHILD'S SCHOOL to search for a Book!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

An ACLU attorney likened the search to being “the sort of thing you hear about in communist China and Russia.”

with all of the Mike Godwin in the news lately, this was a real missed opportunity for a Nazi Germany/Hitler comparison, especially since Godwin, himself, has recently given his approval of the comparisons.

[–] SinningStromgald 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that is really disturbing. What was the cop going to do if he found it? Arrest the kid?

[–] FlyingSquid 24 points 1 year ago

Arrest the teacher probably.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Just tell them the books are armed. They will never enter the school

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

So they're obligated to check, hmm... so if someone were to, say, call them 10000 times about 10000 different locations...

[–] b3an 14 points 1 year ago

Establishing Satanic clubs in schools seems to be a good way to bring positive change while quietly protesting.

[–] FuglyDuck 4 points 1 year ago

Make sure to use VOIP and spoof your number to Mom’s For Liberty or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

They are obliged to check... What now? Someone having a book they don't like? Saudi Arabia is looking more progressive every day in comparison

[–] thesprongler 16 points 1 year ago

Literally Fahrenheit 451.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the right wing is shit. They have bad ideas on pretty much everything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is extremely not a thing that police should be dealing with. If someone really has "porn" at school it can be dealt with at school. Plus it's not illegal for minors to possess porn. There are so many things wrong with this.

[–] FlyingSquid 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, it isn't porn. It simply isn't. It has sexual situations, but so do lots of other books that aren't porn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't intend to imply that it was porn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol. America gotta America